Quintilian on education

From his Instutio Oratoria (around 95 AD)

"The child who is not yet old enough to love his studies
should not be allowed to come to hate them. His studies must be
made an amusement."

Home Tutors v School

"The broad daylight of a respectable school is preferable
to the solitude and obscurity of a private education."

Teaching Methods

"Vessels with narrow mouths will not receive liquids
if too much is poured into them."

Discipline

"Study depends on the good will of the student, a quality
that cannot be secured by compulsion."
"Flogging is a disgraceful form of punishment fit only for slaves
... young children are helpless and easily victimised, and therefore
no one should have unlimited power over them."

Games

"It is the nature of young things to play ... a boy who
is in a continual state of depression is never likely to show alertness
in his work."

The Teacher

"The teacher should be strict but not severe, genial
but not familiar."
"He must control his anger, making continuous but not extravagant
demands on his class, and probe with questions those who sit in
silence in the hope of escaping his eye."